#4844 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Southern Flat Oyster
Ostrea angasi
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Josie Jones · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jay · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Colin Meurk · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Terra Occ · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Wayne Martin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Warwick Moyse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Warwick Moyse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Nick Lambert · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © eyrelab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © itara · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The southern mud oyster , Australian flat oyster , native flat oyster , or angasi oyster ( Ostrea angasi ), is endemic to southern Australia, ranging from Western Australia to southeast New South Wales and around Tasmania.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,953 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Flat Oyster
- scientific name
- Ostrea angasi
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Ostreida
- family
- Ostreidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,953
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Ostreidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 566644, Wikidata Q7107731, GBIF 4373348, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.